GRADUAL DILATATION OF ŒSOPHAGEAL STRICTURES.

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Abstract
Obviously there is no more serious lesion than closure of the only passage leading to the stomach. Fortunately nature has guarded the œsophagus so that its freedom from disease is noteworthy, and its most frequent lesions are the result of external causes, neoplasms, or due to diseases of contiguous tissues. So rare and surely fatal have strictures of this passage been that until within recent years but little has been done in attempting permanent relief. The gravity and urgency of the symptoms have possibly prompted equally grave and heroic remedies, such as divulsion, cutting, gas-trotomy, etc., until now it seems needful to call attention to more conservative methods of treatment. In striving for the brilliant, possibly the safer and more simple plans have been neglected. Neoplasms of the passage itself, or of adjacent structures, may cause stenosis, but I wish now to consider only cicatricial strictures of the œsophagus. These

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